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Histoire generalle des Indes Occidentales, et terres neuues, qui iusques à present ont esté descouuertes. : augmentee en ceste cinquiesme edition de la description de la Nouuelle Espagne, & de la grande ville de Mexicque, autrement nommee, Tenuctilan.

López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564, López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564. Crónica de la Nueva España · 1606 · A Paris. : Chez Michel Sonnius, ruë Sainct Iaques à l'enseigne de l'escu de Basle. · 3 pictures

A 1606 Paris edition of Francisco López de Gómara's history of the Indies and the New World, printed by Michel Sonnius and held by the John Carter Brown Library, with a description of New Spain and Mexico City added. The first two pictures are symmetrical arabesque ornaments in black woodcut on cream paper, and the third is a bookplate with a coat of arms beneath the name John Carter Brown; a designer might borrow the interlaced scrollwork and four-lobed symmetry of the ornaments for borders or emblems.

Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547

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